The Kentucky county clerk who has refused to issue any marriage licenses since the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in June now is asking the Court to intervene in her case.
Rowan County Chief Clerk Kim Davis’ lawyers filed an emergency appeal late Friday asking the Court to grant “asylum for her conscience” and allow her to continue to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples, according to The Associated Press.
Davis, an avowed Christian, has a religious objection to issuing marriage licenses to gay couples.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday declined Davis’ request for a stay of a district judge’s earlier ruling that ordered her to issue same-sex marriage licenses. But Davis’ office refused to issue a marriage license to another gay couple on Thursday morning.
The AP noted that Davis, who pulls in an $80,000 salary as chief clerk, can’t be fired from that post because she is an elected official.
Rowan closed her office Saturday ahead of a planned protest of her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses.
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If it was really about her conscience she’d quit her 80K a year job that she is willfully NOT doing.
Married 4 times and worried about the sanctity of marriage…ugh.
Don’t these jobs have requirements, like being able to carry out the function of the office? If you can’t do that function because of your religious beliefs, then get your fat ass out of the job and find another one. She looks like she would fit right at home as a Wal-Mart greeter.
BTW, 80 grand a year in Kentucky can surely get you a hairdresser? (Although, come to think of it, looking at Rand Paul, maybe not.)
When ALL the people in yur cunty are paying your salary, you have a duty to serve ALL of them. Or resign.
That clerk should be fired. Where’s Trump when we need him?
“As an elected official she can’t be fired”.
ell, OK …how about a recall election?
You’d think. But then again we have people running for office all over the place that want to dismantle the govt.
It’s been pointed out elsewhere that she would need to be impeached and that wouldn’t pass in her state.
I think she needs to be found in contempt of court and continuously fined. The forst fines would be met by donations from the true believers but they will eventually move on to the next shiny thing…